Blazing Blood Blade and the "Soul Severing Blade Technique"

After spending and refining his qi and blood once more, Lu Siye skillfully picked up another Red Ginseng, ready to continue strengthening it.

Just then, he heard two steady, purposeful sets of footsteps drawing closer.

Lu Siye set down the Red Ginseng in his hand and warily looked toward the door.

He could tell that the two people outside his door weren't ordinary.

The qi and blood within them were scorching. They hadn't quite reached the level of a Night Patrol Envoy, but they were close.

"Are they from the Town Demon Suppression Division? Have the Blazing Blood Blade and the 'Soul Severing Blade Technique' arrived?" Lu Siye guessed.

Knock, knock, knock~

Someone rapped on the door. Lu Siye quickly got up, went over, and opened it.

As soon as the door opened, Lu Siye saw two men in black wearing sunglasses standing outside.

One held a long, rectangular wooden case, while the other carried a cloth-wrapped package.

Looking at the items in their hands, Lu Siye figured they must be the Blazing Blood Blade and the blade manual he'd ordered in the early hours of the morning.

"May I ask if you're Lu Siye, Mr. Lu?" one of the men in black asked.

Though his expression was calm, their tense bodies and rapid heartbeats betrayed how nervous they really were.

"That's me! Are you from the Town Demon Suppression Division?" Lu Siye rubbed his nose. Was he really that scary?

"Yes. These are the items you ordered, Mr. Lu. Please check them." The man nodded and handed over the wooden case and cloth package.

Lu Siye took the package and opened it.

Inside was a thin, blue-covered book. Four simplified Chinese characters were printed on the cover: "Soul Severing Blade Technique."

He flipped through a few pages and, satisfied that everything was in order, took the wooden case.

The wood grain on the case was exquisite. It felt slightly warm to the touch, and the material was clearly no ordinary wood.

Then he gently undid the clasp.

Click~

The lid lifted a crack. A glint of cold light flashed, and a wave of heat seeped out.

One look was enough for Lu Siye to tell that the Tang Heng Blade inside was extraordinary.

"All right, everything checks out. Don't leave yet. Wait for me a moment." Lu Siye nodded to the two men.

After telling them to wait, he turned and went into the room, setting the two items on the table.

Then he went into the kitchen, took two bottles of Ice Cola from the fridge, and brought them to the door.

"Thanks for your hard work. It's hot out—have a drink to cool off."

"Thank you!" The two men took the Ice Cola and saluted Lu Siye.

Lu Siye hurriedly returned the salute. After watching them head down the stairs, he turned and closed the door.

As they descended the stairs and felt the gaze behind them disappear, the two men finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"The badass who tore down a Bound Spirit along with the place it was bound to doesn't seem nearly as scary as I imagined!"

"True. But I heard he only joined the Town Demon Suppression Division recently. Judging by the qi and blood in him, he's almost on par with a veteran Night Patrol Envoy!"

"I think he might already be stronger than those veteran Night Patrol Envoys. That Bound Spirit was the kind that even they dreaded facing, and he took down two of them at once."

"Our Tianhai City has another prodigy. The people here can feel a lot safer now!"

"Yeah. If only we had more prodigies like him!"

Back in the living room, Lu Siye had no idea what the two men had said about him. His eyes were fixed on the weapon and manual on the table.

Lu Siye opened the wooden case. A wave of heat rolled out, raising the temperature of the entire living room by several degrees.

The Tang Heng Blade before him, called the Blazing Blood Blade, was black from hilt to guard to blade, with mysterious-looking red patterns running along it.

The blade itself was pure white, gleaming with a sharp, icy light under the lamps.

Lu Siye wrapped his hand around the hilt. In an instant, he felt the qi and blood inside him begin to pulse in a steady rhythm, as if resonating with the blade.

With a thought, he gathered his qi and blood in his palm. The red patterns on the hilt glowed faintly, and a gentle pull came from them.

His qi and blood, which ordinarily couldn't leave his body, began to flow out of his palm under that pull, seeping into the patterns.

The patterns on the hilt quickly lit up, followed by those on the guard and the blade.

In the blink of an eye, every pattern shone like flowing light.

Suddenly, Lu Siye felt as if the blade had become part of his body.

No—that wasn't an illusion!

His qi and blood really could flow into the blade. Though a little was lost along the way, his own qi and blood still connected with the weapon, letting him wield it as naturally as his own arm.

At a thought, it moved; at another, it stopped!

What a fine blade—truly a fine blade!

Those 72 points had been worth every bit!

"System, strengthen the Blazing Blood Blade!" Lu Siye thought.

"Would the host like to spend 600 Fear Points to strengthen the Blazing Blood Blade?"

"Hiss—no!" Lu Siye sucked in a breath. He hadn't expected the first strengthening to cost so many Fear Points.

He felt even poorer than before.

But then he looked at it another way: the more Fear Points it took, the higher the Blazing Blood Blade's quality must be.

He'd stumbled upon another use for the system's strengthening function: judging an item's quality.

His mood immediately improved!

Lu Siye didn't choose to strengthen it. He planned to cultivate the third layer of the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill" first, then strengthen the blade if he had any Fear Points left over.

He put the blade back in its case, picked up the "Soul Severing Blade Technique," and began reading.

The "Soul Severing Blade Technique" had been created by one of the Town Demon Suppression Division's top experts, Star of Heavenly Wound, one of the Thirty-Six Heavenly Spirits.

It was a blade technique designed specifically to target the seven souls of ghosts. One strike could destroy their physical form.

The technique had only three levels: beginner, proficient, and mastery.

At mastery, it could sever only the seven souls without harming the body, making it the best technique for dealing with ghosts that possessed people.

"System, strengthen the 'Soul Severing Blade Technique'!"

"Would the host like to spend 200 Fear Points to strengthen the 'Soul Severing Blade Technique'?"

Lu Siye heard the prompt and fell into thought.

He wasn't sure whether those 200 Fear Points would strengthen it to the next stage or were the cost of strengthening all three current levels.

"No!" After thinking it over, Lu Siye decided to save them for now.

The technique was already enough for him to use. He should first cultivate the third level to perfection.

With that, he stored the Blazing Blood Blade and the manual in the system's storage space.

Then he strengthened the Red Ginseng in water and continued cultivating the third level of the "Dragon Elephant Prajna Skill."